What is Zenith?
Freestyle has created the Zenith project, in which seniors design independent projects based on their interests, with dedicated mentorship, tools, and time rather than a fixed curriculum. For this project, I worked on MOSAIC. It is a generative AI story app that allows children to create imaginative stories and have them read aloud, leveraging Freestyle’s flexibility to focus on product development while applying their interests in business, product design, and innovation in a hands-on way.
What I’ve been working on:
Through Freestyle, MOSAIC’s development extended beyond the product itself to include branding and marketing. By applying skills learned in Adobe Photoshop, visually compelling coupons and promotional materials were designed to align with the app’s playful, creative identity. I had to cut out each character individually and remove many backgrounds to achieve a sleek cutout look. This allowed for more polished, professional outreach, using color, typography, and layout strategically to capture attention, communicate value clearly, and make marketing efforts more effective and engaging for the community.
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As well, our team and I have created AI video stories to promote the app and create an educational, engaging way for kids to read stories. This one is about a neighborhood bully who pours chili peppers into the lemonade of two sweet kids. Instead of this crushing the two kids, they use their creativity to create a neighborhood challenge where people can pay to see if they can handle “Dragon Breath Lemonade” made from the chilis.
Zenith Video Celebration:
My Zenith presentation was a great learning opportunity as I got to share my project and receive challenging questions from both peers and teachers. I got to share how MOSAIC was created because of my business partner’s younger brother, who kept asking his dad for stories, and the dad kept running out of ideas. This transitioned into the core principle for MOSAIC, where we let the kids be the authors of their own stories and start the creative thinking process. One difficult part of this presentation was the questions. People asked if I was stealing from authors and if it is safe for kids to use screens. In response, I said that our story does not steal work from authors’ existing books, and that each parent has the responsibility and choice to give their children screens or use the app when they see fit. As well, the goal is not passive watching like on TV; it’s an educational, hands-on story-making process that prompts kids to think about different concepts to weave into a story.
Zenith Selfie Reflection: